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Strictly Come Dancing: Olympic gold-medallist Victoria Pendl...

She and her partner Brendan Cole lost a dance-off against former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan and Natalie Lowe after the judges' scores were combined with the results of the viewers' votes to decide the lowest scoring t [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

Synchronized swimmer Tracy Little makes the leap from Olympi...

In September, six members of the Canadian synchronized swimming team that finished fourth at the London Olympics announced their retirement. One of them, Tracy Little, a two-time Olympian, moved almost immediately into a new career: Pole [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Should pole dancing be an Olympic sport?

Chances are your significant other would get upset if you spent an evening watching pole dancers. How unfair that would be. Because according to pole dancers, what they do is a sport. They’re even trying to get it into a future Olym [...]

Posted On : Jul, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

A push for Olympic Pole Dancing

There's new push to make a practice most commonly seen at nightclubs and some fitness gyms an Olympic sport. The Pole Fitness Association and other pole dancing advocacy groups are circulating petitions to have vertical dance added to [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Pole dancers seek Olympics games' recognition

TOKYO | The 2010 Winter Olympics wound to an end yesterday, and for Japan's Mai Sato, watching all those gold medals being handed out in Vancouver was a bittersweet experience. Ms. Sato knows the demands of being the best. In her wor [...]

Posted On : Mar, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Pole Dancing At The Olympics?!

International pole chancing champion, Mai Sato from Japan, would love to see that happen. Sato trains five hours a day in her sport that takes a tremendous amount of strength and agility - it's just too bad it's associated with s [...]

Posted On : Feb, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Pole dancing could be recognized as a sport and headed to th...

The strip club mainstay pole dancing - known as much for its sensual moves as its rigorous athletic side - may be headed for the Olympics. A group of pole-dance advocates is hoping for a "test" event in 2012 and a more formal p [...]

Posted On : Feb, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Ice dancing takes center stage in day 11 of Vancouver Olympi...

It's day 11 of the Vancouver games and the medal machine Team U.S.A. continues to dominate. Ice dancing again takes center stage in the third and final phase of the competition, the free dance. Two American pairs are in medal content [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

U.S. skaters finally boogying in Olympics ice dancing

Olympic ice dancers all will skate to the same music when they perform to Tango Romantica in Friday's compulsory dance. Whatever the music, the U.S. ice dancers finally have found the beat. After decades as an afterthought in U [...]